To dream that you are the opposite sex suggests that you need to incorporate certain qualities of the opposite sex. Ask yourself, how do you feel being a man or a woman? In what ways can you incorporate those feelings into your waking life.

To dream about anal sex represents submission. You may be afraid to yield to the wants and desires of others.

To dream of anal sex symbolizes the creation of problems or negative experiences. Life experiences that totally "screw you over", and leave you with unresolved problems. It reflects choices that never lead to anything productive.

Anal sex in a dream is a sign that a situation is being made worse or that you feel you are getting "the shaft" from someone. Anal sex may also be a sign that you are giving in to bad habits.

To dream of anal rape symbolizes a sense of powerlessness to stop a problem from "screwing you over." You may that problems are being made for you or that they are too big to overcome.

Example: A man dreamed of his father having anal sex with him. In real life he had a moral dilemma that poor choices were exacerbating. His father having anal sex with him reflected a bad conscience making the problem worse.

Example 2: A man dreamed of a demon anally raping another man. In real life this man was experiencing his business being totally destroyed and felt powerless to stop it. The demon rape reflected his perception of horrible and unfair it felt to witness his business going under.

If you dream of having an anal sex, it is a sign of presentation. There might be something you are shy to talk about or to do. The main meaning of this dream is that you should be braver and more confident with yourself.

To dream that you are giving or receiving oral sex signifies your willingness to give or receive pleasure/joy. It is symbolic of your creative energy and reaffirms that you are headed in the right direction in life. The dream may also be a pun on " talking about sex." Perhaps, you need to communicate with your mate about your sexual needs and desires. Or you are acting out your sexual wishes.

To dream that you are performing oral sex on yourself represents your need for self-gratification.

To dream of oral sex represents feelings of total submission. Serving others or doing whatever someone else wants. Doing all this asked or required in a way that makes life easier for someone else. Completely catering to others needs

Positively, oral sex can represent helping other people or a total concern for their interests. Feeling that someone is making your life a lot easier. It could also point to enemies becoming completely subordinate to you. Feelings about life being too easy for you.

Negatively, oral sex may reflect caving in completely to fear or giving all your power away to a subordinate state. Feeling disgusted with yourself for having let someone feel powerful over you with their arrogant fantasies. Alternatively, it may also reflect feelings of surprise that someone would do you a favor. You may not be respecting yourself enough to believe you deserve something easy happening to you.

To dream of getting oral sex represents feelings about a person or life situation doing whatever you want or ask. Experiences where you are feeling good being helped perfectly. Enjoying favors, gifts, or something free.

To dream of someone evil or negative getting oral sex represents a negative situation that is subordinated to. Giving up all power to someone that will abuse it. Alternatively, it may reflect your own abuse of others good nature or compliance. Enjoying having a "slave."

To dream of giving oral sexto an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend you still fantasize about can represent you empowering your sexual desire for them. A sign that you need to put more effort into getting over them. Alternatively, it may reflect subordination in some way.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing Satan getting oral sex. In waking life he had succumbed tohis drug addiction. He felt powerless to stop himself from giving in to the "evil" of his addiction that he felt wasted his life.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a small dog giving her oral sex. In waking life she had gone back to school to train for a new job and found that school was too easy. She felt like her new education was being given to her.

To dream that you are making a sex tape means that you are sexually open to new things. You are comfortable with your sexuality. If you dream that a sex tape of you has been stolen or leaked, then it means that you are feeling over-exposed. Perhaps things are moving too fast or you are not fully comfortable in your relationship.

To see or use a sex toy in your dream suggests that you are feeling unsatisfied in some area of your life, which may or may not relate tosex. There is a void in your life. Alternatively, the dream may be a play on words and that you are not taking sex seriously. Perhaps you have an immature attitude towards sex. More directly, the dream indicates your desires for a more gratifying and/or exciting sex life.

To dream of gay sex symbolizes a lack of concern about something wrong that you know you're doing. Something isn't right and are doing it anyway. Alternatively, it may reflect your enjoyment of something you know is wrong to do.

To have gay sex that you don't enjoy may reflect feelings of being coerced into situations that you know are wrong or dangerous.

To dream of being raped by a member of the same sex may represent a sense of powerlessness to control a situation that you know is wrong or dangerous.

Alternatively, a homosexual can be symbolic of your sexual desires if you are gay, or have homosexual curiosity.

Men with pregnant wives often dream of having homosexual sex. This may reflect their feelings about how immoral or wrong it feels to have sex while knowing that a child is alive inside their wives during sex.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing lesbians driving a bulldozer on her front lawn. In waking life this woman had had an abortion. The lesbians reflected her feelings about enjoying her life without havingto raise a child while also feeling that having an abortion was morally wrong.

To dream of the lotus sex position represents an enjoyable experience where you like needing or depending on something.

Example: A young women dreamed of havingsex in the lotus position, being rudely interrupted, and then talking to the guy on the phone asking him if he wants to do it again and the phone went silent. In waking life she was losing her dorm at school. The lotus style sex may have reflected her feelings about enjoying having a dorm and needing it for school.

To dream of riding sex represents a positive experience where someone or something is catering to another. Feeling good noticing something being done for you.

If you are riding someone it may reflect a positive experience where you are doing all the work for someone. If you are being ridden it reflects a positive experience where someone is doing all the work for you.

Riding sex can point to situations where you like someone so much that you enjoy doing anything you can for them. Negatively, it can point to a person in your life that you are allowing to use you.

Example: A young man dreamed of having riding sex with another male friend where he was the girl. In waking life he enjoying hiding his friend from the police.

To dream of doggy style sex represents a person or situation in waking life that feels good being easy to control. Enjoying noticing someone in your life letting you boss them around. Liking to feel yourself havingto be in control unquestioned. Enjoying being given total control or power. Subordination that feels good being easy and automatic. Enjoying controlling someone because you are more attractive or interesting then they are.

Negatively, doggy style sex in a dream may reflect too much enjoyment of controlling someone else. Exploiting controlling someone's good nature for fun. Enjoying thinking you are too attractive or important to be questioned.

If you find yourself havingsex with a girl who is bent over in the doggy style position this may symbolize something you wanted in life being handed to you. Something you wanted to think, feel, or experience easily happens. Easy power, control, or gains.

If you find yourself in the doggy style position, this may represent how you giving someone else easy power, control, or gains. Letting someone else enjoy themselves controlling you or getting something they wanted from you easy. It may also reflect your feelings that someone else is too attractive to ignore or reject. Enjoying being passive. Negatively, being bent over the doggy style position may reflect feelings that someone is too big or powerful to ignore. Humiliation that some else gets to control you without question.

Example: A man dreamed of having doggy style sex with a woman he knew. In waking life he was enjoying himself totally controlling this woman with his advice. The woman had a huge secret crush on him and was doing almost everything he asked her to do.

To dream about sex refers to the integration and merging of contrasting aspects of yourself. It represents psychological completion. You need to be more receptive and incorporate aspects of your dream sex partner into your own character. Consider the nature of the love-making. Was it passionate? Was it slow? Was it wild? The sex act parallels aspects of yourself that you wish to express. A more direct interpretation of the dream may be your libido's way of telling you that it has been too long since you have had sex. It may indicate repressed sexual desires and your needs for physical and emotional love. If you are looking for a place to have sex, then the dream may be analogous to your search for intimacy and closeness. You want to rekindle some relationship. If you dream of havingsex in a public place, then the dream implies that others are talking about your private relationship.

To dream about sex with someone other than your spouse or significant other suggests dissatisfaction with the physical side of your relationship. On the other hand, it may be harmless fantasy. In such situations, you may find that you are less inhibited sexually. Perhaps you need to bring the same sense of adventure into your existing relationship.

To dream that you are havingsex with an ex or someone who is not your current mate denotes your reservations about embarking in a new relationship or situation. You may feel nervous about exposing yourself and are feeling a resurgence of those old emotions and feelings that you felt back when you and your ex were together. If you are approaching your wedding date, then is not uncommon to experience especially erotic adventures with partners other than your intended spouse. This may be due to the intensity of the sexual passion with your fiancé. It also relates to the new roles that you will be taking on and the uncertainty that that may bring.

To dream that you are havingsex with a stranger represents uncertainty about what is ahead. Alternatively, the dream allows you to experiment freely without having any hang ups, emotional baggage or preconceived notions associated with a person you would know. In such a scenario, you are able to let loose and express your desires, passions and emotions. In particular, if you dream of havingsex with multiple partners at the same time, then it indicates that you are feeling detached in your personal relationship. You feel that sex is just an act devoid of any emotion or passion. Perhaps your sex life has become too automated.

To dream that you are havingsex with a friend refers to the closeness you share with your friend. Because you two share so much between each other and know so much about each other, the dreaming mind may depict this closeness as sex. Alternatively, such a dream indicates a level of attraction between you and your friend, but you are too afraid to act on it. Thus your desires are manifested in a dream.

If you are heterosexual and you dream that you are havingsex with someone of the same sex, then it represents an expression of greater self love and acceptance. You need to be in better touch of your feminine or masculine side. The dream does not necessarily imply homosexual desire.

To dream that you are havingsex with a celebrity indicates your drive to be successful. You are striving for recognition. Consider what movies you associate this celebrity with for clues as to where and what you want to achieve success in.

To see others havingsex in your dream refers to your own desires to be more adventurous in your own sex life.

To see your parents havingsex in your dream indicate that you are seeing similar aspects between their relationship and your current relationship. Most cringe at the thought of your parents havingsex, so this dream imagery is really trying to get your attention. Consider your parents' real life relationship together and what you can learn from it.

To dream that you are the opposite sex suggests that you need to incorporate certain qualities of the opposite sex. Ask yourself how do you feel being a man or a woman? In what ways can you incorporate those feelings into your waking life.

Dreaming that you are watching your girlfriend have sex with someone else suggests that you are taking a passive role in your sex life. Maybe you feel that you are not satisfying her. The dream is signaling you to communicate your sexual concerns and/or desires. Alternatively, the dream may reflect a personal fantasy you have.

To dream about sex represents positive or pleasurable experience that you are having in waking life. Whomever you have sex with represents a quality your noticing in yourself or a situation that you are enjoying.

For example, if you have sex with a celebrity it may symbolize a quality you see in that celebrity coming out of you or enjoying an activity you associate with that celebrity.

Whatever the thoughts, feelings, or memories that stand out the most to you about the person you have sex with represents what you are experiencing more of in your life.

Alternatively, sex in a dream may reflect your feelings about your partner or someone you desire.

To dream of being unable to find a safe place to have sex may reflect challenges that stop you from doing what you like or from expressing yourself. Interests or goals may be sidetracked by complications or conflicting feelings. Feeling confused as you sort through your options. Alternatively, it may reflect your inability to be close or intimate in your relationship.

To dream of havingsex interrupted represents outside forces intruding on your private time, relationship, or ability to enjoy what you are doing. Your career may be interfering with your love life or a distraction is interfering with your ability to succeed. An outside element is spoiling your special moment or time to shine.

To dream of havingsex with a person who has something wrong with them may represent your enjoyment of being needed. You may also be enjoying the role of being more desirable, important, or interesting than someone else.

To dream of havingsex with someone in public may represent your private life being made public or other people speculating about your life. It may also reflect attention you are attracting yourself with your personal interests or achievements.

To dream of havingsex with a vanishing partner represents a lack of commitment or an inadequate partnership. Sexual or romantic frustrations. Noticing your confidence in a person or situation you are enjoying disappearing.

To dream of a havingsex with a faceless person represents a need to learn more about what really pleases you. Feeling good with something you are undecided about. Enjoying being single or trying new things. Feeling free in not knowing what you really want.

To dream of havingsex with yourself may reflect your enjoyment of showing off your skills or experience to others. Having a good time being the center of attention or showing off. An enjoyable experience where you feel you are the most important. Negatively, it may be a sign that you are going too far enjoying showboating or asserting yourself. Enjoying yourself thinking your more attractive or better than other people.

To dream of foreplay or sexual activity in a bedroom that never leads to full sex may reflect waking life situations where you are privately considering doing something enjoyable while never taking the real steps to make it happens for real.

To dream of chasing someone to have sex may reflect your feelings about other people never wanting to have a good time with you. Elderly people may have this kind of dream.

To dream of people watching you have sex may reflect your feelings about lacking privacy in your personal life or feelings that people are judging you on your personal interests. Feelings about a person or situation making it difficult for you to enjoy yourself. It may also reflect your conscience weighing on you heavily for something dangerous you are enjoying.

See the [[themes section for sex]] for a more in-depth look at sex symbolism.

Example: A man dreamed of havingsex with Oprah. In real life this man was a successful public speaker. Oprah to him represented excellent communication skills. The sex with Oprah represented how wonderful he felt being so good at public speaking.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of havingsex with an android. In real life she was havingsex with someone she felt was socially boring and easy to control sexually.

Example 3: A man dreamed of havingsex with himself and suddenly seeing himself yelling at himself. In waking life he had embarrassed himself going too far showing off his skills to customers the point that his business partner had to lecture him on stopping it.

Example 4: A young woman dreamed of sexual foreplay in bedroom that never leads to full sex. In waking life she was considering asking a guy she knew to the prom, but couldn't get the confidence to ask him for real.